BEING THERE
Synopsis
BEING THERE portraits four people from different cultures giving care to dying people. By confronting their own mortality, they present ways how to show up for dying individuals in the last period of life, and how this connects to their own life again and again, reflecting on their relation to death and dying. The protagonists (Ron Hoffman, USA, Elisabeth Würmli, Switzerland, Alcio Braz, Brazil and Sonam Dölma, Nepal) raise the question whether we should adopt a new Ars Moriendi in today’s time. A new art of dying – as it was the case in the Middle Ages – that would comprehend dying as a vital part of life and that could enrich our lives again by dealing with our death more consciously.
Credits
Direction Thomas Lüchinger
Production roses for you film (Thomas Lüchinger)
Protagonists Alcio Braz, Sonam Dölma, Ron Hoffman, Elisabeth Würmli
Photography Thomas Lüchinger
Editing Rolf Lang, Samuel Kellenberger, Thomas Lüchinger
Sound Werner Graf, Hemraj Dangal
Color Grading REDSMOKE AG, Rolf Lang
Sound Mix Ephrem Lüchinger, Manuel Rindlisbacher
Score and Sound Design Ephrem Lüchinger, Manuel Rindlisbacher
Production & Release
Production Switzerland, 2016
Original version English/Swiss German/Nepalese/Portuguese, 16:9, color, stereo
Subtitles German, English, French
Runtime 95 Min.
Genre Documentary
SUISA-Number 1011.552
Cinematic premiere 2nd November 2016 (Switzerland)
Festivals Solothurn, Jaipur International Film Festival 2017, Lakeside Doc Festival 2017
Website www.being-there.ch
Distribution
roses for you film
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